JPH10320396A - Machine translation device and computer readable recording medium for recording machine translation processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a machine translation device for efficiently operating translation by storing only a sentence or a character string to be translated by a user in a storing means in an end batch translation mode. SOLUTION: Only a character string to be translated in a text in a file to be translated in a batch is designated by surrounding it by a text reading start symbol and a test reading end symbol (S3). Then, at the time of reading a text, characters are read from the head of a file one by one, and the text reading is started from the text reading start symbol (S8), and the text reading is ended at the text reading end symbol (S11). The read text is divided into each sentence by a preliminarily decided code such as a line feed code, and stored in a text storage area (S12), and this part is translated (S13). On the other hand, a character string which is not surrounded by each symbol is not stored or translated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a machine translation device for translating a sentence to be translated into another language and a computer-readable recording medium on which a machine translation processing program is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a computer-readable recording medium on which a machine translation apparatus and a machine translation processing program of this kind are recorded, a user enters an original sentence by one sentence and translates the sentence, and a translation from another file. There are two types of translation methods: batch translation, which translates the read text at once. In the batch translation, first, the entire text in the file is stored in a text storage area, and then the text in the file is divided into individual sentences by a line feed code, a period (.), A period, and the like. It is stored in a storage area and translated in units of one sentence. Further, in the case of one-sentence translation, it is also possible to translate only a part of the original sentence input by the user and stored in the original sentence storage area.

[0003]

However, according to the conventional machine translation apparatus and the computer-readable recording medium on which the machine translation processing program is recorded, when the batch translation of the file is selected, all the sentences in the file are selected. Was stored in the original text storage area, and the text that the user determined to be unnecessary to translate was translated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. A sentence or a character string that does not need to be translated is not stored in a storage unit from the beginning, and a sentence or a sentence that a user wishes to translate is stored. By storing only the character string in the storage unit, it is possible to avoid reading unnecessary sentences into the storage unit,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a machine translation device capable of performing translation efficiently and a computer-readable recording medium recording a machine translation processing program.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, a machine translation apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises: an input unit for inputting a sentence to be translated; In particular, the present invention is intended for a device including a storage unit for storing an input sentence or the like or a translation result, a translation unit for translating the sentence, and an output unit for outputting a translated result. A batch translation character string designating means for designating only a character string which is desired to be translated collectively among sentences to be translated, and a batch translation for reading only the character string designated by the batch translation character string designating means into the storage means. Character string reading means.

According to the machine translation apparatus of the first aspect having the above configuration, the user specifies only the portion to be translated in the file to be translated by the batch translation character string designating means, and the designated character is designated there. Only the columns are read into the original text storage area as translation targets and sent to the translation unit. Character strings not specified by the batch translation character string specifying means are not read into the original text storage area and are not translated.

[0007] The machine translation device according to claim 2 is
The batch translation character string designating means is configured to add a symbol to a start point and an end point of a character string to be translated. Therefore, the starting point and the ending point of the character string to be translated are given symbols by the batch translation character string designating means, so that the range of the character string to be translated can be easily and reliably checked.
Accurate translation can be performed.

A computer-readable recording medium storing the machine translation processing program according to claim 3 of the present invention translates a sentence inputted for translation and stores the translation result. In particular, a batch translation character string designating program for designating only a character string to be batch translated among sentences to be translated, and a batch translation character string designating program for the recorded machine translation processing program. A batch translation character string reading program for reading only the designated character string into the storage means is stored.

According to a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon the machine translation processing program according to claim 3 having the above configuration, the programs can be stored in various recording media such as a floppy disk and a CD-ROM. It can be stored in a recording medium suitable for a machine translation device.
Then, by executing the program using this recording medium, the user specifies only a portion of the file to be translated which is to be translated by the batch translation character string designation program, and only the designated character string is translated. Is read into the original text storage area and sent to the translation unit. Character strings not specified by the batch translation character string specification program are not read into the original text storage area and are not translated.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium storing the machine translation processing program, wherein the batch translation character string designation program assigns symbols to a start point and an end point of a character string to be translated. It is configured. Therefore, by executing the program using this recording medium, the starting point and the ending point of the character string to be translated are given symbols by the batch translation character string designation program, so that the range of the character string to be translated can be easily set. Accurate translation can be performed while reliably and surely checking.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. This embodiment shows an example in which the first language is Japanese and the second language is English.

First, the configuration of a machine translation apparatus according to the present embodiment is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, a CPU 20, which is a central processing unit for controlling the entire apparatus, includes an input unit 10 for inputting Japanese from a keyboard, an OCR (optical character reader), and the like, and a CRT (cathode ray). An output unit 30 for displaying on a tube or printing from a printer is connected. The RAM 40 is connected to the CPU 20,
A text storage area 41 for storing the entire input Japanese sentence, an original sentence storage area 42 for storing only the character strings to be actually translated in batch, and an English sentence of the translation result And a translation result storage area 43. A translation program 51 and a translation dictionary 52
ROM 50 as a recording medium storing
20.

The input section 10 constitutes the input means of the present invention, and the output section 30 constitutes the output means of the present invention.
The AM 40 constitutes storage means of the present invention.

Further, the machine translation apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a batch translation character string designation program for designating only a character string to be batch translated among sentences to be translated, and a batch translation character string designation program. A batch translation character string reading program for reading only the designated character string into the storage means is stored in the ROM in advance.
The present invention is not necessarily limited to this. For example, these programs are stored on a floppy disk or CD-
What is stored in a ROM or the like can be read by a reading device, installed, and operated. Also,
A program can be read from an external information processing device using a wired or wireless line and operated. In this case, the floppy disk, the CD-ROM, and the memory storing the corresponding program of the external information processing device constitute the recording medium of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a translation operation by the machine translation apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

When the user selects batch translation (step 1: hereinafter, step is abbreviated as S), next, it is selected whether or not to specify a range for batch translation (S2). When the range for batch translation is specified (YES in S2), the user adds a source text reading start symbol and a source text reading end symbol only to a character string to be actually batch translated (S3). The source reading start symbol and the source reading end symbol may be any symbols as long as they are preset in the system. In this embodiment, "<<" is used as the source reading start symbol and ">>" is used as the source reading end symbol. I have. The processes in S2 and S3 function as a batch translation character string designation unit and a batch translation character string designation program of the present invention.

However, since the number of the original text reading start symbols and the number of the original text reading end symbols must be the same, it is checked whether or not they are properly consistent (S4). If they are not consistent (NO in S4), the user is urged to make a correction (S5). If the original text reading start symbol and the original text reading end symbol are correctly assigned (if S4 is YES), it is checked whether or not there is the original text reading start symbol one by one from the beginning of the file (S6). If there is an original reading start symbol (S7
Is YES), the reading of the original text is started from there (S8). If there is no original text reading start symbol (S7 is N
In the case of O), the next character is examined (S9). If it is not the last character of the file (if S10 is NO), then
The characters are examined one by one. When the character becomes the last character of the file (if S10 is YES), the batch translation process is terminated. The original sentence stored in the original sentence storage area from the character string to which the original sentence reading start symbol is added continues to be read until the original sentence reading end symbol appears (S11). The processing in S8, S11 and S12 functions as a batch translation character string reading unit of the present invention.

As described above, the read original text is stored in the original text storage area by being divided for each sentence by a predetermined code such as a line feed code or a period "." (S1).
2). Then, the original sentence stored therein is translated at once (S13), and the translation result is output from the output unit (S1).
4). Note that the process in S13 functions as a translation unit of the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a file containing Japanese sentences for batch translation. Among these, "<<" which is an original text reading start symbol and ">>" which is an original text reading end symbol are attached to portions to be collectively translated. The user encloses the string to be translated between "<<" and ">>". In Fig. 3, it has changed from "in one chapter of this book" to "
, And “1,” to “is.” Are surrounded by an original text reading start symbol and an original text reading end symbol, respectively. When batch translation is selected and the translation range is specified, the original text is read one character at a time from the beginning of the file, and reading is started when there is an original text reading symbol.

In FIG. 3, the reading of the original sentence starts from “of this paper”. Reading continues until a text reading end symbol appears. In FIG. 3, there is an original text reading end symbol after "was.", So that the original text reading ends there. Next, I will look at each character again,
Since there is an original text reading start symbol before "1", the original text reading is started from there. Since there is an original text reading end symbol after "is", the original text reading is ended there. In this way, the read original text is stored in the original text storage area by being separated for each sentence by a predetermined code such as a line feed code or a period "." And RO
The translation is performed by the translation program 51 while referring to the translation dictionary 52 stored in the M50. The English text resulting from the batch translation is displayed on the CRT from the output unit 30,
Printed from printer.

[0021]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the machine translation device of the first aspect of the present invention, at the time of batch translation, a user specifies only a portion that he wants to translate, and stores only the specified character string in the original text storage area. Thus, only the necessary character strings can be subjected to the translation process, and the translation work can be efficiently advanced.

According to the machine translation device of the present invention, in the batch translation mode, the symbols can be assigned to the start point and the end point of the character string to be translated by the batch translation character string designation means, so that the translation is performed. Accurate translation can be efficiently performed while easily confirming the range of the character string.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a machine translation processing program is recorded, wherein each of the programs is machine translated from various recording media such as a floppy disk or a CD-ROM. It can be stored in a recording medium suitable for the device. Then, by executing a program using this recording medium,
By specifying only the part that the user wants to translate at the time of batch translation and storing only the specified character string in the original text storage area, only the necessary character string can be subjected to translation processing, The translation work can proceed efficiently.

Further, according to a computer-readable recording medium on which the machine translation processing program according to claim 4 is recorded, each program can be machine translated from various recording media such as a floppy disk or a CD-ROM. It can be stored in a recording medium suitable for the device. And
By executing the program using this recording medium, in the batch translation mode, a symbol can be added to the start point and the end point of the character string to be translated by the batch translation character string designation program. Accurate translation can be efficiently performed while checking easily and reliably.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a machine translation device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a translation process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a Japanese sentence file for batch translation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 input unit 30 output unit 50 translation unit 40 storage unit 41 text storage area 42 original text storage area 43 translation result storage area

Claims (4)

[Claims] An input unit for inputting a sentence or the like to be translated; and a sentence or the like input by the input unit.
Alternatively, in a machine translation device including a storage unit for storing a translation result, a translation unit for translating the sentence, and an output unit for outputting the translated result, A batch translation character string designating means for designating only a character string to be batch translated, and a batch translation character string reading means for reading only the character string designated by the batch translation character string designating means into the storage means. A machine translation device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The machine translation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the batch translation character string designating means assigns a symbol to a start point and an end point of a character string to be translated. 3. A computer-readable recording medium storing a machine translation processing program for translating a sentence input for translation and storing the translation result, among the sentences to be translated. A batch translation character string designation program for designating only a character string to be batch translated, and a package translation character string reading program for reading only the character string designated by the batch translation character string designation program into the storage means. A computer-readable recording medium on which a machine translation processing program is recorded. 4. The batch translation character string designation program,
4. A computer-readable recording medium storing a machine translation processing program according to claim 3, wherein a symbol is added to a start point and an end point of a character string to be translated.